Tutorial by xenopeek: How to upgrade from LMDE2 to LMDE3, 'coz i dreamt about it last night; LMDE3 turns out to be such a humdinger that it takes the Linux world by storm, it comes with the latest LTS 4.9 kernel and a Mint Flash based on Lightspark. There is so much demand for it and such an increase in the number of users that the developers in their wisdom decide to focus solely on the LMDE project. Slowly but surely Mint users are weaned away from the Ubuntu versions and by the end of 2017 that branch of Mint development is completely closed. Suddenly there was a loud banging and i woke up with a start, it was the milk delivery guy scowling and muttering under his breath for making him wait too long.